This Aztec pictogram depicts warriors drowning as a temple burns in the background. New research links the scene to a 1507 earthquake. Courtesy of Gerardo Suárez and Virginia García-Acosta A ...

Pictogram representing an earthquake that took ... studied Mexico's historical earthquakes, a 500-year-old Aztec manuscript is the first "written" evidence of earthquakes in the Americas, the ...

The codex is the work of an Aztec tlacuilo, or scribe, and uses pictograms. To make it comprehensible to Charles V, a Spanish priest familiar with Nahuatl wrote an explanation in Spanish.

An Aztec manuscript from the 16th century that ... which translates to 'those who write paintings.' The pictograms on the 500-year-old manuscript offer little information about the size ...

Able to easily read the abundance of signs and symbols on Our Lady’s image which used Aztec pictogram language, they quickly gave up worshipping the sun and the moon and other pagan entities.

The colonial-era codices differ from pre-colonial examples as they contained Aztec pictograms annotated with Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish and occasionally Latin. Produced by ...